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Article Dans Une Revue FEBS Letters Année : 1991

Functional significance of aromatic amino acids from three peptide loops of the alpha 7 neuronal nicotinic receptor site investigated by site-directed mutagenesis

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Three aromatic amino acids, Tyr92, Trp148 and Tyr187 belonging to three separate domains of the α7‐subunit of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor were mutated to phenylalanine, and the electrophysiological response of the resulting mutant receptors analyzed in the Xenopus oocyte expression system. All mutations significantly decreased the apparent affinities for acetylcholine and nicotine, and to a lesser extent, those for the competitive antagonists dihydro‐β‐erythroidine and α‐bungarotoxin. Other properties investigated, such as the voltage dependency of the ion response as well as its sensitivity to the open channel blocker QX222, were not significantly changed, indicating that the mutations affected selectively the recognition of cholinergic ligands by the receptor protein. The maximal rates for the rapid desensitization process were slightly modified, suggesting that the contribution of Tyr92, Trp148 and Tyr187 to the binding area might differ in the various conformations of the nicotinic receptor. Other mutations at nearby positions (S94N, W153F, G151D and G82E) did not affect the properties of the electrophysiological response. These data point to the functional significance of Tyr92, Trp148 and Tyr187 in the binding of cholinergic ligands and ion channel activation of the nicotinic receptor, thus supporting a multiple loop model [(1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 10430–10437] for the ligand binding area.

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hal-02193481 , version 1 (25-07-2019)

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Jean-Luc Galzi, Daniel Bertrand, Anne Devillers-Thiéry, Frédéric Revah, Sonia Bertrand, et al.. Functional significance of aromatic amino acids from three peptide loops of the alpha 7 neuronal nicotinic receptor site investigated by site-directed mutagenesis. FEBS Letters, 1991, 294 (3), pp.198-202. ⟨10.1016/0014-5793(91)80668-S⟩. ⟨hal-02193481⟩
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